Telecommunications · Kentucky

SC640 - Lexington, KY

Lexington, KY · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SC640 - Lexington, KY runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade F.

SC640 - Lexington, KY: 7.6 TCR = 270% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SC640 - Lexington, KY safety composite

SC640 - Lexington, KY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

SC640 - Lexington, KY: 5.2 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2018

SC640 - Lexington, KY's TCR rose 8.2 from 5.2 in 2016 to 13.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 270% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Greenville Headquart…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenville Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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SC640 - Lexington, KY in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows SC640 - Lexington, KY averages 7.6 TCR (270% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

SC640 - Lexington, KY TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=13.4 · BLS 2.8

Where SC640 - Lexington, KY falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Telecommunications employers in Kentucky.

SC640 - Lexington, KY (41 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SC640 - Lexington, KY
SC640 - Lexington, KY (41 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

SC640 - Lexington, KY has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 13.4 9.6 7 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2016 5.2 5.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · KY · Lexington

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Greenville Headquarters 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DOT-Transportation 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSU:GS650 - GS650-OutFall Sac CA 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Sacramento-Academy Way 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murray Electric System 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Services - Belfry 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE E H Construction LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Providence (Rilin) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearney (Nekea) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island (Ilrln) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RNO - Airport United Airlines Offices 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NSK20 - North Sky - Tacoma 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE IVWWD - Wildwood- FL 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Indianapolis 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4028-AGAD25 41 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.